Drawer construction



y 31, 1951 E. D. BAcKus 2,562,290

' DRAWER CONSTRUCTION Filed March 25, 1948- Patented July 31, 1951UNITED" STATES PATENT OFFICE DRAWER CONSTRUCTION Edward DickersonBackus, Mount Pleasant, S. 0. Application March 25, 1948, Serial No.16,900

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to a drawer construction.

An object of this invention is to provide an improved drawerconstruction which forms a part of a knockdown prefinished cabinet ofthat type embodied in my copending application for cabinet filed of evendate herewith, wherein the front wall of the drawer is formed. partlyfrom that piece of the front panel of the cabinet which is grouted orcut out to form the drawer opening. The removed panel piece has glued tothe inner face thereof an inner facing sheet, and also has glued to theouter face thereof an outer facin The drawer is adapted to engage in adrawer opening which is formed in a front panel I! constructed ofplywood. The front panel I! forms the front of a cabinet and is cut outto sheet. Marginal extension strips are glued to inner side of the outerfacing sheet and to the marginal edges of the panel piece so as to formprojecting flanges around the drawer front. By the construction of adrawer front from the removed piece of the front panel for the cabinet,a very substantial waste of plywood panel is eliminated and theformation of the cabinet from a single piece of plywood is madepractical and profitable.

To the foregoing objects, and others which may hereinafter more fullyappear, the invention consists of the novel construction, combinationand arrangement of parts, as will be more specifically referred to andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, but it is to be understoodthat changes, variations, and modifications may be resorted to whichfall within the scope of the invention as claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure l is a plan view, partly broken away of a drawer constructedaccording to an embodiment of this invention.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Figure1.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on the line 33 of Figure2.

Figure 4 is a detailed front elevation, partly broken away of a frontpanel from which the body portion of the drawer front is formed.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral I designates generally a pair ofside walls for a drawer which are formed at their rear with a verticalgroove I2 within which the tongue I3 of a rear wall I4 is adapted toengage. The side walls I0 adjacent the lower lengthwise edges thereofare also formed with lower bottom retaining grooves H within which abottom wall I5 is adapted to engage.

The drawer is formed with a front wall, generally designated as I6, andthe front wall I6 is of composite or built-up construction as will behereinafter described.

form a rectangular drawer opening I8. That piece of the front panel IIwhich is cut out is embodied in the drawer front I6 and is designated bythe numeral I9.

In building up the front wall I6 of the drawer, the removed panel pieceI9 has glued to the front and rear faces thereof facing sheets 20 and2|, respectively. These facing sheets may be formed out of Masonite orother suitable material which is relatively rigid and is formed with arelatively smooth surface for receiving paint, enamel or other suitablefinish.

In building up the composite front wall I6, the marginal edges of theremoved panel piece I9 have secured thereto narrow extension strips 22which are glued not only to the marginal edges of the panel piece I9 butare also glued to the inner face of the outer facing sheet 20. Inpractice when the panel piece I9 has been cut from the opening I8 theextension strips 22 are inserted between the two facing sheets 20 and 2|and glued therebetween. The inner facing sheet 2I is then cut down atits upper and lower edges to conform to the original upper and loweredges of the panel piece I9 and a portion of the extension strips 22 arealso out down so that these extension strips will be substantiallynarrower than the width of the panel piece IS.

The inner facing sheet 2! at the opposite or outer ends thereof isformed with tongues 23 which are adapted to engage in vertical grooves24 formed in the side walls I0.

With a drawer construction and method of assembly as hereinbeforedescribed the front panel of the cabinet can be formed out of a singlepiece of plywood thereby eliminating joints usually found in built-upfront panels which usually crack the finish on the front panel. Bybuilding up the removed panel piece as hereinbefore described, thedrawer front will be provided with the extended marginal portions whichabut against the outer side of the front panel of the cabinet in aconventional manner.

It will, of course, be understood that the front wall I6 may also havesecured thereto a drawer pull 25 of conventional construction.

I claim:

A drawer comprising opposite side walls, front and rear walls and abottom wall, said front wall comprising a body of rectangularconfiguration, front and rear facing sheets glued to the opposite facesof said body, said front facing sheet extending beyond the marginaledges of said body, and extension strips secured about the marginaledges of said body and to the rear side of said front facing sheet, saidextension strips being narrower than said body and in abutting relationwith the ends of said side walls and forming marginal flanges with saidfront facing sheet.

EDWARD DICKERSON BACKUS.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

Number Number UNITED STATES PATENTS Name "Date Holtgrewe Jan. 25, 1916Willard Sept. 19, 1933 House Apr. 25, 1939 Berger May 22, 1945 FOREIGNPATENTS Country Date Great Britain Jan. 31, 1936

